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Period and Wet Dreams: Teaching Puberty in Elementary School
Description: 

Puberty - a time of great, and sometimes daunting, change for both young people and the adults in their lives. This interactive, full-day training will provide educators, school nurses, youth-serving professionals, and other caring adults with skills and strategies for teaching pubescent youth about their changing bodies, emotional growth, and navigating the path to adulthood in a way that is inclusive of students of all genders and sexual identities. Through a social-emotional learning lens, participants will have an opportunity to engage in lessons and activities that will build their own skills to teach anatomy, menstruation, hygiene, cultivating empathy, and more. 

Topic(s): 
Contraception, pregnancy, and reproduction
Creating an inclusive and affirming learning environment
Effective teaching strategies
Healthy relationships
LGBQ+ identities
Puberty and adolescent development
Responding to challenging questions
Transgender and gender expansive identities
Sex education in schools
Sexual and reproductive anatomy and physiology
Values
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Age Group(s): 
Grades 3-5
Grades 6-8
Format: 
Online
6 hours
$295
Indicator 1 (K-12): Demonstrate three techniques to create an inclusive and affirming learning environment. (S)
Indicator 2 (K-12): Demonstrate three strategies for creating culturally responsive classrooms. (S)
Indicator 4 (K-12): Demonstrate three strategies of a trauma-informed approach to sex education (e.g. giving trigger warnings before content on sexual assault and allowing students the right to pass as appropriate, etc.). (S)
Indicators
Sex Education In Schools Indicators: 
Indicator 1 (K-12): Describe three health (e.g. physical, social and/or emotional) and/or academic benefits of sex education for young people
Indicator 2 (K-12): Describe state and/or district laws, policies, and standards that relate to sex education where one teaches.
Values Indicators: 
Indicator 3 (K-12): Explain the importance of educators refraining from sharing their personal values when implementing sex education.
Indicator 4 (K-12): Demonstrate the ability to respond effectively to students’ values-based comments and questions. (S)
Indicator 1 (K-12): Demonstrate the ability to build rapport with students. (S)
Indicator 2 (K-12): Demonstrate three student-centered instructional approaches that support a variety of learning styles. (S)
Indicator 3 (K-12): Explain the differences between positive vs. shaming approaches to teaching sex education.
Indicator 4 (6-12): Demonstrate how to use the experiential learning cycle when teaching. (S)
Indicator 5 (K-12): Describe three effective strategies for practicing skills with students.
Indicator 6 (K-12): Describe three strategies for actively involving parents, caregivers, and other trusted adults in a sex education program.
Indicator 7 (K-12): Demonstrate the ability to analyze and tailor lesson plans to match the age, developmental stages, cultural backgrounds, and other identities of students. (S)
Indicator 1 (K-12): Explain three reasons why it is important to respond to every question students ask when teaching sex education.
Indicator 2 (K-12): Demonstrate the ability to effectively respond to three different types of challenging questions. (S)
Indicator 1 (K-12): Describe three distinguishing characteristics between healthy and unhealthy relationships, involving family, friends, and/or romantic partners.
Indicator 2 (K-12): Explain three ways that healthy relationships can positively impact personal well-being.
Indicator 3 (K-12): Describe three strategies for teaching students communication skills.
Indicator 5 (K-12): Describe three ways to help students set and respect personal boundaries in relationships.
Indicator 2 (K-12): Define sexual orientation and sexual identity, including that everyone has both.
Indicator 3 (6-12): Explain the difference between sexual orientation, sexual behavior, and sexual identity.
Indicator 4 (K-12): Demonstrate the use of inclusive and affirming language. (S)
Indicator 7 (K-12): Identify three credible, medically accurate, youth-friendly resources that can provide information or support related to sexual orientation.
Indicator 1 (K-12): Explain how availability of supportive school staff, presence of Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs), gender-inclusive curricular resources, and the presence of comprehensive enumerated anti-harassment school policies are related to improved school climate for students of all gender identities.
Indicator 2 (K-12): Demonstrate the use of inclusive and affirming language. (S)
Indicator 3 (K-12): Define gender identity and sex assigned at birth.
Indicator 4 (K-12): Explain how gender identity and gender expression are distinct from each other and from sexual orientation.
Indicator 7 (K-12): Identify three credible, medically accurate, youth-friendly resources that can provide information or support related to transgender and gender expansive people.
Indicator 8 (K-12): Explain why it is essential to include positive portrayals of transgender and gender expansive people in lessons.
Indicator 9 (K-12): Demonstrate three strategies that can be used to make lessons affirming for transgender and gender expansive people. (S)
Indicator 1 (K-12): Describe how puberty prepares the human body for the potential to reproduce.
Indicator 2 (K-12): List three physical, three social, and three emotional changes that occur during puberty.
Indicator 3 (K-12): Identify three practices that students can adopt for maintaining healthy habits beginning during puberty.
Indicator 1 (K-5): Explain the benefits of teaching young children the medically accurate terms for genitals.
Indicator 2 (K-12): Demonstrate the ability to use medically accurate terms for sexual and reproductive anatomy, including all external genitals. (S)
Indicator 3 (K-12): Explain the function of the individual sexual and reproductive body parts and how they typically work.
Indicator 1 (6-12): Explain fertilization, implantation, conception, and how pregnancy occurs.